I've recently started playing the game Exalted. It's cool.
The characters are superhumans with magical powers who have been reincarnated as adults. For the sake of saving space and time, I'll assume that you know about the game.
Despite my initial misgivings about having fun playing a character who can literally leap over a building and throw a horse as a weapon, I gave the game a try and was hooked.
I have two characters in the game. One is a Dragon Blood Dynast living in the blessed Isle. His name is Ledaal Goram and he is an Immaculate trained Magistrate who asked for and received the Empress' blessing as a Magistrate shortly before she dissappeared. He is stationed in a city just north of the Emperial City.
I had his background story, personality, and habits fully fleshed out before I made the character. As I have not been able to play him, I am currently writing a novel based in this world with him as the main character. Think Law and Order in a fantasy world.
My other character was made with no preparation. This character introduced me to the world. I had no time to think about this character at all before creation, something that I rarely do.
His name is Bastian Markone. His street name is Da'chau, an Old Realm word that means Spirit of Death. He is a scholar who lives at the University in Nexus and teaches there on occasion. He is also a serial killer, theif, and con artist.
He believes that most people are cattle or part of the environement. They are meant to be ignored or used as appropriate for a given situation.
In contrast, he respects those who survive against the odds and helps them by providing them with money, an education, or other assistance.
With both characters I made an effort to come up with a personality before character creation. Then I asked why and how they came to be like this. "Why" and "how" starts me on their background which allows me to "fill in the blanks".
I never make a "fighter" or "thief". I make a person. I create a personality, as psychotic or mundane as that personality may be, and then I find skills to fit that personality.
Both these characters are extremely intelligent. They are both scholars and they are both dangerous. One is a homicide detective and the other is a pure sociopath.
Neither can be classified in D&D or other class games. Even Exalted, which has types of Exalts, can pigeon hole these characters. An Exalt player or GM may guess at the type, but they'd still be guessing. My characters, even those in D&D aren't defined by class, but by personality.
I've recently started playing the game Exalted. It's cool.
The characters are superhumans with magical powers who have been reincarnated as adults. For the sake of saving space and time, I'll assume that you know about the game.
Despite my initial misgivings about having fun playing a character who can literally leap over a building and throw a horse as a weapon, I gave the game a try and was hooked.
I have two characters in the game. One is a Dragon Blood Dynast living in the blessed Isle. His name is Ledaal Goram and he is an Immaculate trained Magistrate who asked for and received the Empress' blessing as a Magistrate shortly before she dissappeared. He is stationed in a city just north of the Emperial City.
I had his background story, personality, and habits fully fleshed out before I made the character. As I have not been able to play him, I am currently writing a novel based in this world with him as the main character. Think Law and Order in a fantasy world.
My other character was made with no preparation. This character introduced me to the world. I had no time to think about this character at all before creation, something that I rarely do.
His name is Bastian Markone. His street name is Da'chau, an Old Realm word that means Spirit of Death. He is a scholar who lives at the University in Nexus and teaches there on occasion. He is also a serial killer, theif, and con artist.
He believes that most people are cattle or part of the environement. They are meant to be ignored or used as appropriate for a given situation.
In contrast, he respects those who survive against the odds and helps them by providing them with money, an education, or other assistance.
With both characters I made an effort to come up with a personality before character creation. Then I asked why and how they came to be like this. "Why" and "how" starts me on their background which allows me to "fill in the blanks".
I never make a "fighter" or "thief". I make a person. I create a personality, as psychotic or mundane as that personality may be, and then I find skills to fit that personality.
Both these characters are extremely intelligent. They are both scholars and they are both dangerous. One is a homicide detective and the other is a pure sociopath.
Neither can be classified in D&D or other class games. Even Exalted, which has types of Exalts, can pigeon hole these characters. An Exalt player or GM may guess at the type, but they'd still be guessing. My characters, even those in D&D aren't defined by class, but by personality.
"You are not a unique or beautiful snowflake."